Interview: Alexander Weide

Hi, my name is Alexander, I was born in late 1984 in the city of Dresden, Germany. I was twelve years old when I saw “Star Wars” for the first time. I watched the VHS cassette behind my parents’ back and I was so stunned by the imagery! Watching the movie was an emotional experience for me, one that marked the start of my dream of making my own movie. It did not take long for me to understand that I wasn’t seeing reality captured on camera. I quickly understood that this was a story made by people behind a camera. So I started to make my own Star Wars “movies”: I built starships and Star Destroyers with Lego bricks. They looked ugly with their random colors, not to mention that they only moved with the help of my hands. I added sound effects using only my mouth as children do and I obviously did not know how to make animations or film sequences at the time.